Pin-ticket.



BIO- 852,5131. v PATENTED MAY 7, 1907.

' G. A. WALLIN.

PIN TICKET.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 2, 1906.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIQE.

GUSTAF A. WALLIN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO A. KIMBALL COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

PlN- -TlCKET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 7, 1907.

Application filed November 2, 1906. Serial No. 841,677.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GUsTAF A. VVALLIN, a subject of the King of Sweden, residing in New York, county of New York, and State of New York, have invented an Improvement in Pin-Ticke ts, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention relates to pin tickets for attachment to various kinds of fabrics, and it has for its object the production of a simple and novel pin ticket which can be readily at tached to the fabric and which will not become detached. therefrom accidentally; a ticket so constructed that the attaching pins or prongs can be passed through the fabric so near the edge thereof thatthe fabric will not be injured or marred, and so constructed that the ticket in itself provides a complete and effectual protection for the points of the prongs or pins after they have been passed throughand bent down upon the fabric.

The various novel features of my invention will be fully described in the subjoined specification and particularly pointed out in the following claims.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a pin ticket embodying one form of my invention, the back face thereof being uppermost; Fig. 2 is a view showing the pin ticket partly applied to a fabric, the pins or prongs having been passed through and turned down upon the fabric, and the protective portion of the blank being shown as partly bent over the edge of the fabric. Fig. 3 is a sectional View taken through the ticket and fabric when the ticket is in final osition thereon; Fig. 4 is a view similar to *ig. 1 of another embodiment of my invention; Fig. 5 shows in edge view the mode of applying the pin ticket illustrated in Fig. 4; Fig. 6 is a perspective View of the ticket in place, the fabric to which it is attached being shown in dotted lines.

In order to provide a successful pin ticket it must be readily constructed, and the blank or ticket proper and the fastening prongs must be securely connected so that there will be no chance for separation when in use the ticket must be flat, so that it can be readily printed or stamped with price and other designations, and it must be easily attached to the fabric, while remaining securely thereon until purposely removed. These features are all present in my present invention, as will appear, and in addition it possesses the features of self rotection for the pin points, so that they wi 1 not stick into other fabrics, nor into the fingers of those handling the ticketed goods, and adaptability to be attached to a fabric so close to the edge, selvage or binding thereof that the pin holes will not mar the fabric when the ticket is removed. This latter feature is of great value in ticketing gloves, velvets, and other fine and costly fabrics wherein pin holes in the body of the fabric would be most objectionable.

The blank, made of paper of suitable thickness, size and shape, herein shown as oblong and rectangular, may be made in two plies either by folding at its center, see Figs. 1, 2 and 3, the two plies a and I) being superposed and cemented together by mucilage or other suitable adhesive, or two separate sheets or plies a, 1), Figs. 4, 5 and 6, can be superposed and cemented together, as may be most convenient.

The two plies give proper body to the ticket and also provide for concealing the staple head and securing the staple in place, as will appear.

The fastening pin or staple herein shown, made of suitable wire, comprises two prongs 1, 1, preferably pointed at their ends to readily pass through the fabric to which the ticket is to be attached, and the prongs are united.

by an elongated head 2, clearly shown in dotted lines Fig. 1. Such head may be made with its side portions diverging from the bases of the prongs, as at 3, to approach nearer the side edges of the blank, the head and prongs lying in planes at right angles to each other when the ticket is in readiness to be applied to a fabric. The prongs are passed through one of the plies of the blank, as I), from its inner face outward, the head 2 lying flat and being interposed between the two plies and extending longitudinally thereof, and being held securely in place by the adhering faces of the plies, as will be manifest.

As will be seen from Figs. 1, 2 and 3 the rongs are located nearer one end of the lank, the head of the sta le extending toward such end, and if the b ank is folded the head extends to close proximity to the fold. The portion of the blank or ticket between the prongs and the nearer end is thus re-inforced by the staple-head, and by virtue of the latter such portion may be bent over and will retain such bend permanently until positively unbent for removal.

To apply the ticket to a fabric the prongs or pins 1 are ushed through the same near its edge, see *igs. 2 and 3, the main portion of the ticket resting against the face of the fabric F which is to be exposed. The prongs are now turned down flat and in opposite directions upon the other face of the fabric, and the portion of the ticket inclosing the staple-head is bent over the edge of the fabric, covering and completely protecting the prongs, as shown in Fig. 3.

In Fig. 2 the prongs are shown as turned down into clenching position, and the headinclosing portion of the blank or ticket is partly bent over, to show more clearly the operation.

From an inspection of Fig. 3 it will be seen that not,only are the points of the prongs completely protected and covered, but the part of the ticket bent over the fabric edge will retain the bend permanently because of the wire staple-head therein, so that the main part of the ticket lies flat upon the exposed face of the ticket, and is held flat thereon by the bent wire of the staple-head.

In order to remove the ticket it is only necessary to unbend the end, turn up the then-exposed prongs, and withdraw them from the fabric, the pin-holes thereby left in the fabric being so close to the edge thereof as not to mar or injure it in the least.

In the embodiment of my invention shown in Figs. 4, 5 and 6, the staple is set in the blank in a reverse manner, the prongs 4 being passed through one of the plies of the blank close to one end thereof, and the elongated head 5 is extended longitudinally of the blank toward its opposite end, see Fig. 4.

The prongs are .shown as passed through the ply l), which latter faces the fabric when the ticket is applied. In other respects the construction is substantially as has been described, but I have shown the head 5 as somewhat narrower than the head in Figs. 1, 2 and 3. Either form of staple may be used,- however, and either construction of blank, 'i. 6., two separate and superposed plies, or a folded over blank with the plies connected by an adhesive.

To apply the ticket shown in Fig. 4 it is held as shown in Fig. 5, against the back face of the fabric F and the prongs 4 are passed through to the front face, all as shown in full lines, the prongs are turned down, and then the art of the ticket inclosing the staplehea 5 is bent over the edge of the fabric and down against the front face thereof, as shown in dotted lines, Fig. 5, and full lines Fig. 6. The turned down prongs are thus fully protected and concealed, and the wire in the bent portion of the ticket retains the latter in position flat against the face of the fabric.

In Fig. 6 the fabric is indicated by dotted lines in order to show a part of one of the turned over prongs 4 in full lines.

In the construction herein shown and described the ticket may be said to be divided into a display portion, meaning thereby such portion as will be provided with printed or written matter to indicate price, quality, cost, etc., and an edgeembracing portion, meaning thereby that portion of the ticket which is to be folded over the edge of the fabric. portion of the ticket is the art thereof traversed by the loop or head 0 the fastener, and the remainder of the ticket of greater length, is the display portion, it being manifest that the loop or head of the fastener is substantially equal in length to the length of the edge-embracing portion of the ticket.

The display portion of the ticket herein shown presents a smooth, flat surface upon which printed matter may be impressed readily, and various price marks or other designations stamped or written as is customary in the use of pin tickets.

From the foregoing description and the drawings it will be manifest that the ticket is adapted to be bent transversely near one end, to embrace between the bent portions the edge of the fabric to which the ticket is applied, the fastening pin being attachedto the ticket adjacent the line on which it is to be bent, said pin passing through the fabric adjacent its edge and being turned down upon the fabric, and means, such as furnished by the head of the fastening pin, extending from the base of the pin longitudinally of the ticket and crossing the line of bending thereof, such means maintaining the folding of the ticket around the edge of the fabric.

So far as I am aware it is broadly new to provide a pin ticket with means whereby the portion thereof adjacent the prongs or pins may be bent over the edge and against one face of the fabric to conceal and protect the prongs passed therethrough from its opposite face, and accordingly change within the scope of the appended claims may be made without departing from the spirit of my invention.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Let ters Patent is 1. A pin ticket comprising a two-ply blank, and a staple having its prongs passed through one of the plies, nearer one end. thereof, normally at right angles to its face, and having an elongated head held between and extended longitudinally of the plies toward the nearer end of the same, the length of the head enabling the inclosing portion of the blank to be bent transversely adjacent the prongs and turned over the edge and against one face of In Figs. 1 and 4 the edge-embracing.

' a fabric to protect the staple prongs passed therethrough from the opposite face and turned down adjacent the edge of the fabric.

A pin ticket comprising a blank composed of two united plies, and a staple having its prongs passed through one of the plies nearer one end of the blank and normally substantially at right angles to its face and having an elongated head extended longitudinally toward the nearer end of the blank and held in place between the plies, the length of the head enabling the inclosing portion of the blank to be bent transversely adjacent the prongs and turned over the edge of a fabric to protect'the prongs when extended through the fabric adjacent its edge from one face and turned 'down upon the opposite face. f

33. A pin ticket comprising an oblong rectangular blank folded transversely at the center to form two like plies secured together, and a staple having its prongs passed through one of the plies near one end normally at right angles to its face and provided with an elongated head interposed between and held by the plies, the length of the head between the prongs and the nearer end of the blank enabling the inclosing portion of the blank to be bent over the edge of a fabric to conceal the prongs passed therethrough adjacent its edge from the opposite side, and turned down, the head retaining the bend and maintaining the ticket in place on the fabric.

4. A pin ticket comprising a blank having a fastening pin nearer one end and projecting from one of its faces, said pin being adapted to pass through a fabric acent'its edge and be turned down upon the contiguous face of the fabric, and an elongated head forming a part of the pin extended toward the nearer end of the blank, whereby the blank may be bent over the edge of the fabric between the exposed portion of the pin and the nearer end of the blank and maintained bent, completely overlapping and concealing the turned down pin.

5. A pin ticket comprising a blank composed of two united plies, and a staple having its prongs passed through one of the plies near one end of the blank and having an elongated head held in place between the plies and extended longitudinally from the prongs toward the nearer end of the blank, the length of the head enabling the blank between such end and the prongs to be bent over the edge of a fabric and remain bent thereover to overlap and protect the prongs passed through the fabric from its opposite faceand adjacent its edge.

6. As an article of manufacture, a pinticket comprising an edge-embracing portion, and a display portion of greater length, an elongated Wire loop inclosed wholly within the edge-embracing portion of the ticket and of substantially equal length therewith, whereby when such portion is bent transversely between the ends of the loop, the latter will retain the bend, and fastening prongs integral with the loop and at one end thereof, projecting from the face of the ticket, the prongs when passed through a fabric adjacent its edge and turned down upon its contiguous face being wholly covered by the overlying part of the bent edge-embracing portion of the ticket, the longer display portion presenting a flat, plane surface for printing or stamping.

7. A pin ticket comprising a blank having two attached fastening prongs nearer one end thereof and normally projecting at right angles from one of its faces, said blank being adapted to. be bent transversely near the prongs, the prongs being adapted to be passed through a fabric adjacent its edge and turned down upon the opposite face of the fabric, and an elongated head connecting the prongs extended therefrom longitudinally toward the nearer end of the blank across the line on which it is bent and attached to the blank, whereby the portion of the blank traversed by the head and immediately adjacent the prongs is given a permanent bend over the edge of the fabric and against the downturned prongs, to completely conceal and protect the latter.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GUSTAF A. WVALLIN.

Witnesses:

MELVILLE A. l\lARSH, ARTHUR C. TnoMPsoN. 

